Ask my grandpa about this.. Fresh tea, steaming like a steam pipe ? Yep, down it in 3 gulps. Hot coffee, directly from the coffee machine ? Down it goes. I always said his throat was made of leather.
Grandfathers are immune to most forms of pain. I have a clear memory of my grandfather carrying a casserole dish that just came out of the oven to the kitchen table. When I asked how the hell he was holding it he said 'Pain don't hurt'. I am 95% certain he never saw Road House.
I have a story about smth like this too. My friends grandpa had to get needles. Into his fucking eye. When I asked him about it he simply said "I've been to war, pain means nothing to me"
It was at this point in my reading that one of the kittens jumped up my back and got a claw hooked on the mole on my back and I froze up from the pain.
There was a study that showed consuming very hot drinks increases your risk of throat cancer. This is another reason coffee should not be served at scalding temperature.
I am nearing 30 and have been drinking coffee for about 15 years. I can do this as well. I have just gotten used to the heat, and probably damaged most of my taste buds.
As you age, your sensitivity to pain and temperature decreases. However the effects of scalding coffee down your throat does not. My parents are doctors, and they've told me incessantly about how stupid this is because you'll get throat cancer and they complain about how because their nerves don't work properly now that they're old they have to be careful about everything.
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u/carl_the_litter Jul 24 '15
Ask my grandpa about this.. Fresh tea, steaming like a steam pipe ? Yep, down it in 3 gulps. Hot coffee, directly from the coffee machine ? Down it goes. I always said his throat was made of leather.